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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">The CIRCSE Research Centre, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milan, Italy), invites applications for a full-time, fixed-term Research Fellow position in the area of language resources and natural
language processing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">THE RESEARCH CENTRE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">The CIRCSE Research Centre (http://centridiricerca.unicatt.it/circse_index.html) is the official acknowledgement of the former GIRCSE, which was founded by father Roberto Busa SJ, the author of the
Index Thomisticus and one of the pioneers in humanities computing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">The research centre hosts the Index Thomisticus Treebank project and maintains a number of NLP tools and language resources, mostly for Classical languages.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">JOB DESCRIPTION<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">The successful candidate will manage the computer science related aspects of the CIRCSE research activities and projects.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">In particular, the candidate will develop/re-use software to support research activity in the area of text analysis, implementation and exploitation of language resources such as treebanks and lexica.
She/he will be in charge of the processing pipeline for storing, analyzing, retrieving and annotating digital collections, including (but not limited to) literary and philosophical texts written in Classical languages.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">REQUIREMENTS:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- programming skills: C++ or Java, Python or Perl<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- regular expressions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- good knowledge of English<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">PREFERENTIAL CONDITIONS:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Computational Linguistics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- setup and usage of SQL and no-SQL DB systems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- processing semi-structured data (for instance, XQuery)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- basic administration of an Apache web server<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- designing and developing web-based applications<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- methods and tools for natural language processing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- attested research experience in computational linguistics and, particularly, in developing language resources<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- basics of theoretical linguistics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">FORMAL MATTERS:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- duration: the post is available for up to two years (1 year + 1 year)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- salary for the first year: 19,370 Euros (1,470 monthly, after taxes)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- starting date: September 1st, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">HOW TO APPLY<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">The full announcement and the application form can be downloaded at http://progetti.unicatt.it/progetti-assegni-di-ricerca-legge-240-2010-art-22-presentazione-1122. See under "Decreto rettorale n.
960 del 5 maggio 2014".<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">In particular, see the job description reported between the bottom of page 3 and the top of page 4 in the full announcement here: http://progetti.unicatt.it/progetti-Bando_960.pdf.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION: June 4th, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">DO NOT HESITATE TO ASK FOR HELP!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Although fluency in Italian is not a requirement, documents for application are in Italian.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Informal enquiries about this position should be sent to Dr. Marco Passarotti (marco.passarotti@unicatt.it).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Dott. Marco Carlo Passarotti<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:gray">Researcher<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:gray">CIRCSE Research Centre<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:gray">marco.passarotti@unicatt.it<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:gray">tel +39 02 72342380<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:gray">Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:gray">Largo Gemelli 1, 20123 Milan, Italy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:gray">http://centridiricerca.unicatt.it/circse<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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